The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-10-05

i would DC, The boy al Columbia lol!!
, III the shade OF the noble trees on The
campus, and puts only his head to school
, The boy in Charleston puts his head arc
, legs to school, and his hands also become
, most expert in handling rife; but rifle:
don't assist him 10 get living after ht
, graduates. The boy IN Mississippi puts
head, legs, hands and eyes 70 school
The whole boy is taught, and he is taught
how to farm on farm by men who kno"
to ssdo what they teach, not by "boob
farmers" and theorists. He never IS al.
lowed to lose the habits of industry and
sympathy with labor he brings with hin
from lis humble home, but continues
during two or three hours OF each day to
hoe, to ditch, ''to fork manure, TO milk,
to make butter, to iced stock, to graft, 20
bud, t. prune, and do thousand things
or see them done that viii be oE benefit
in after life.
1t will have been noticed that 90. .
and al Of his brethren never omit II
their category of labors the "forking OF
manure" This is too degrading in their
eyes for any white boy to do while at
| SCHOOL, Guu S4iOuIc NC t''uS.io "V AN-HS'
Now. of all things on Southern farms
this thing OF making and handling and
sowing barn yard manure IS most he
elected and least understood, while it is
the very life an essence OF good farming.
The average farmer knows nothing about
it and cannot therefore teach his soi! ct
home. But the editor OF the Colun oia
Register, who is s'D.'s, ally, hes discoy
cred that manual labor and attention 10
the details OF farm work are inconsistent
with an advanced and comprehensive
curriculum. "That the students cannot
command the time or nervous energy TO
properly master both.
This is news indeed, and Col. Thomas
long experience as an educator gives it
great weight. Unfortunately lie has l&d
no experience along that line and it is
only his opinion. Let US see what those
men think WHO have been studying and
teaching agriculture. On the Sth Of July
past "The National Association OF Teach
ers Of Agriculture and Horticulture met
at the University Of Illinois. There were
present representatives of the land grant
colleges Of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mich
igen, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. They
adopted, after full discussion, with one
dissenting vote, the following resolution:
"Resolved, That We favor regular,
compulsory labor by students on our ass5- as5
ricultural college farms, but before that
it should be required only SO far as It IS
designed to be instructive. !"
The opponents Of the separate agricri-
tural college cannot, or will not, under
stand that the labor is insisted on for two
reason5-tirst, as a mea4s Of practlca!
| illustration and instruction just as medi-
cal students are taught anatomy IL tEe
disscctiDg room, or laT students practice
IL the moot courts before going into the
court house But mairly because II the
student at that formative period Of lite
does nothing for four years but study
books and cultivate tie mind, no. three
in a hundred viii ever return to the fam,
where manual labor and physical energy
are absolutely essential to success. This
IS the whole thing IL nutshell. ed. F."
says: SIT is 6 question of taste whether
it is better for the farmers son to pay
money in college to learn law than to
fork manure, cut wood, &c" There is
no taste In the matter. TO educate farm
ers experience has shown that labor is as
essential part OF the curriculum as che
mistay or vegetable physiology, and It IS
beteer to even ''fcrk manure" than to
loaf or play poker and billiards, or smoke
cigarettes to Kill time.
l will notice only one other point t:>at
ssD." nakes-viz: that the Mississippi
College s'attracts by it's cheapness as
much rs by its agriculture. We will
grant this, if you please, but if the South
Carolina College only turns out less than
| five s'book" farmers to the hundred gra-
duates, while those of Michigan and
Mississippi can show fifty per cent. who
farm, il is enough to prove that in this
agricultural State" a college like these
two is more needed and would be Of
greater benefit than five South Carolina
Colleges. But the bonus paid students
for their labor a. these two colleges is
called the '.mcal tub that contains the
sop," and We are twitted with having set
up d s'barrier across the pathway OF the
South Carolina boy" because We were
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Carolina College except to INDECENT
youths.
The bill drawn by me last winter to
establish an agricultural and mechanical
college n this State, but not introduced
for good reasons, called for tuition fees
''not to exceed forty dollars, but allowed
free tuition to those unable to pay. 1t
is natural to suppose that the college
would be practically ''free, except for
few students. Suppose We shall demand
that it be absolutely ''free" to all, Will
the charge Of Inconsistency and class
legislation be thrown at us? OF course,
but with how little reason. There would
be no competition between the agricul-
tural and mechanical college and the de-
nominational colleges, and consequently
no injustice. The class of students-poor
farmers sons-who would mainly fill up
theagricultural college would never think
of trying to go to the South Carolina
College or 70 the denominational col
leges, and if ncn who are able choose to
send their SONS there let them pay Tor 1t
as they do at Columbia.
'>D." saves his best shot for the last
and winds up as follows: ''Iet ho:; Is q
public sentiment that would not tolerate
free tuition only in the South Carolina
College going to be brought to the point
of teaching youth free aid paying him
besides? I pause tor reply" You
shall have it, my friend, with vengeance.
You have forgotten something. South
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